The Tragedy behind William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet: The story of Romeo and Juliet begins when a long feud between the families of the Montagues and the Capulets disrupts the city of Verona. Two individuals from one of those two families, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love. The two were so passionately in love that they did not give a second thought to their family feud, nor with Juliet's future husband, Paris who she be wed with, and got married in secrecy.
As the pair grew, their secrecy of marriage arrived at a rough patch as Juliet's father confronts Juliet of her wedding day which was soon. Juliet immediately became anxious and wasn't able to handle the struggle of being wed to another man nor telling her father that she had married the son of their enemy in secrecy. Thus Juliet decided to drink a potion that would imitate her looking dead for 42 hours, enough for her to be thought dead and run away with Romeo far from this city as Romeo was banished from Verona as a consequence of killing Tybalt who was Sir Montague's nephew. Therefore, Juliet decided to live their lives as she planned, letting the Montagues and Capulets families think that Juliet was dead and Romeo was living far from the city.
However, Juliet did not warn nor inform Romeo of her plan. Romeo had returned to the city of Verona as his dedicated servant, Balthasar, brought onto him the news of Juliet's death, thus Romeo wanted to see for himself. Romeo arrived to Verona and witnessed that Juliet had passed. So distraught of the heavy and sudden incident, Romeo decided to leave his life beside his love and drink poison that he had found in Juliet's hand, and died a few moments later. Right after Romeo's abrupt death, Juliet wakes up devastated as she sees Romeo lying on the ground dead. Her love overtakes her heart for Romeo as she stabs herself with Romeo's dagger that he contained in his gear he was wearing. "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life." - William Shakespeare
As the pair grew, their secrecy of marriage arrived at a rough patch as Juliet's father confronts Juliet of her wedding day which was soon. Juliet immediately became anxious and wasn't able to handle the struggle of being wed to another man nor telling her father that she had married the son of their enemy in secrecy. Thus Juliet decided to drink a potion that would imitate her looking dead for 42 hours, enough for her to be thought dead and run away with Romeo far from this city as Romeo was banished from Verona as a consequence of killing Tybalt who was Sir Montague's nephew. Therefore, Juliet decided to live their lives as she planned, letting the Montagues and Capulets families think that Juliet was dead and Romeo was living far from the city.
However, Juliet did not warn nor inform Romeo of her plan. Romeo had returned to the city of Verona as his dedicated servant, Balthasar, brought onto him the news of Juliet's death, thus Romeo wanted to see for himself. Romeo arrived to Verona and witnessed that Juliet had passed. So distraught of the heavy and sudden incident, Romeo decided to leave his life beside his love and drink poison that he had found in Juliet's hand, and died a few moments later. Right after Romeo's abrupt death, Juliet wakes up devastated as she sees Romeo lying on the ground dead. Her love overtakes her heart for Romeo as she stabs herself with Romeo's dagger that he contained in his gear he was wearing. "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life." - William Shakespeare